HMM: No Zika Cases Reported During Rio Olympics, W.H.O. Says.

THAT’S BEEN MY EXPERIENCE: Powerline ethernet beats WiFi range extenders pants off. They like this TP-Link model.

I have these but they’re pretty obsolete by now.

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And, Sports Collectibles.

STUART VARNEY DEMANDS ON-AIR APOLOGY FROM OBAMACARE ARCHITECT ZEKE EMANUEL.

Why would Rahm’s brother apologize? This risky healthcare scheme (to paraphrase Al Gore) is imploding on schedule nicely, thus paving the way for single payer and fully socialized medicine. It’s crashing by design, to coin a phrase.

IT WOULD BE EASIER TO BUY THIS IF MY LOCAL WEATHER HADN’T ALREADY TURNED COOL AND WET: Some things are more important than summer and beer.

VIDEO: LET’S WATCH PETER GABRIEL INVENT THE MUSIC OF THE 1980s.

All of the buildings, all of the cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head.

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS: Kim Kardashian Opens Up About Living With Psoriasis.

Related: Bella Hadid Shares Photo of Her ‘Everyday’ Struggle With Lyme Disease.

OCCASIONALLY, HE SHOWS A FLASH OF COMMON SENSE: Jerry Brown Vetoes 50-Hour Pro Bono Mandate For California Bar Admission, Citing ‘Skyrocketing’ Costs Incurred By Students Who ‘Struggle To Find Employment’; Instead, Focus Should Be On Lowering Costs Of Law School And Bar Exam.

TOO DUMB TO BE PRESIDENT? Clinton told FBI she didn’t understand classified intel.

Related: FBI Data Dump Shows Clinton is Criminal and Clueless: Hillary is either dishonest or dumb—there is no third choice. By giving her the Comey get-out-of-jail-free card in spite of this — and by scheduling this release for the Friday before Labor Day Weekend — the FBI has demonstrated that it doesn’t deserve its position either.

Plus: Clinton, aides told FBI conflicting stories about email use.

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: Physics and “the question of being.” The article includes a discussion of quantum maggots. Good read.

HOW THE COMIC GENE WILDER BECAME THE CUDDLY GENE WILDER: John Podhoretz explores “The Hiller Effect,” how veteran director Arthur Hiller tamed the manic streak in Wilder that Mel Brooks exploited so well in The Producers and Young Frankenstein. (Wilder was the calm eye of the hurricane in Blazing Saddles, which had enough mania bouncing off the walls for ten movies. But Wilder saved the production, flying in on very short notice when Gig Young’s alcoholism got the better of him.) Silver Streak, Wilder’s first film with Hiller, was a huge hit in 1976, but ultimately, the cuddly Wilder was a boring one, which is why we remember Wilder fondly for his brilliant early roles, not the elegiac last half of his career.

Related: When Gene Wilder Went ‘Stir Crazy.’

F.I.R.E. is hiring.

RIP JON POLITO, A FAVORITE OF THE COEN BROTHERS, 65.

In addition to his Coen brothers films, Polito was one of those character actors who was everywhere – from Michael Mann’s hip Chicago and Vegas-based Crime Story series in the mid-80s to The Crow to the “man purse” episode of Seinfeld (as the superintendent for Jerry’s apartment building), even the first Atlas Shrugged movie in 2011. As the Onion’s AV Club notes, “He may have been frequently typecast as the gruff heavy, but there were few who could make those often-thankless roles sing like Jon Polito.”

ONE OF THE BEST-LOOKING CARS EVER IN MY OPINION: This Barn Find Lamborghini Miura Is Back on the Road After Sitting for 25 Years.

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IT’S A BIRD, IT’S A PLANE, IT’S FOX BUTTERFIELD! “Why Are So Many BASE Jumpers Dying?” asks the National Geographic. To be honest, I’d say the photo answers the question quite nicely:

(Classical reference in headline.)

21ST CENTURY CRIME:

Florida man nabbed after using his wanted poster as Facebook profile image, police say. https://t.co/3ZsglyZfK4 pic.twitter.com/rVmDQgFint

— ABC News (@ABC) September 2, 2016

TENNESSEE’S 25. NOT BAD, BUT THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: How heavily armed is your state?

THE MEXICO MEET-UP AS RABBIT-OUT-OF-THE-HAT ELECTIONEERING MAGIC: My latest Observer column (bumped). Ed just compared Trump to a scrambling quarterback. He is that. In Mexico City he picked up a big first down.

ELECTION SNAPSHOT:

Shot: “Revealing a level of confidence Clinton’s inner circle has been eager to squash for weeks, outside advisers have now identified victories in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire as the path of least resistance, delivering for the Democratic nominee more than the 270 electoral votes needed to take the White House. And they are projecting increased confidence about her chances in Republican-leaning North Carolina, a state that could prove as critical as Ohio or Pennsylvania.”

—“Clinton’s advisers tell her to prep for a landslide,” the Politico, today.

Chaser: “For someone who’s often been reputed to be such a campaign klutz, Donald Trump had a pretty good week. Yes, he wastefully campaigned in Washington and Connecticut, which he has no chance of winning, and in Mississippi, which he has no chance of losing. But when the president of Mexico invited Trump and what’s-her-name down for a visit, the real estate billionaire pounced on the opportunity like it was a prime midtown corner lot. That’s the sort of unpredictability that’s worried the risk-adverse Clinton crowd all along. Trump is like a scrambling quarterback. You set up all the usual defensive schemes to handle the most likely plays. But then your opponent does something totally unexpected, eludes defenders and pulls off a big play.”

—“Clinton’s worst nightmare: The unpredictable Trump emerges,” Andrew Malcolm, Hot Air today.

Hangover: While Hillary Clinton touts 51 Florida field offices, Donald Trump still has just one.

—The Tampa Bay Times, yesterday.

Honest, I want to believe, but even the best scrambling quarterback still needs to surround himself with an excellent team — and back office operation — to win games in the fourth quarter. And that Tampa Bay headline, along with these, sound like very bad news for Trump.

FBI RELEASES HILLARY EMAIL REPORT: The report summarizes her interview. PDFs with the documents are here.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE OBAMACARE SUCKS: Obamacare Premiums Set to Rise, Even for Savvy Shopper.

ROB TRACINSKI: Don’t Count Out the Internal Combustion Engine.

Notice that we have been talking about all of this simply in terms of fuel economy, granting the assumption that the most important issue is to reduce fuel use. The actual behavior of the market indicates that most people don’t really care that much about fuel economy. Reduced fuel consumption is the mania in the press because they think the electric car is necessary to save the world from global warming. Yet that depends on a whole chain of assumptions: that man-made global warming is actually happening, that the cars Americans drive will make a difference, that electric cars offer significant fossil fuel reductions rather than just a “long tailpipe,” and that we wouldn’t be better off doing something else to save the world.

While the media tends to have its own fixed views on those questions, the buying public clearly does not place as high a premium on fuel efficiency, certainly not at current gasoline prices. And thanks to another big, uncelebrated advance in energy technology—fracking—gas prices aren’t likely to go up very far in the foreseeable future.

The result is that advances in the design of the internal combustion engine have actually focused less on fuel-efficiency and more on performance. As my friend Jack Wakeland summed it up, “The world has just passed through a 25-year-long golden age of car design.”

Vroom, vroom.

AT AMAZON, LG Home-Bot Robotic Vacuums. It’s been a long time since I tried a first-generation Roomba, with disappointing results. Maybe I should take another look.

WATER INJECTION ISN’T NEW, BUT. . . Squirts of Water Can Boost Engine Performance, Fuel Economy by 13%.